Berwyn J. Moore

Biography

Berwyn Moore is the author of two collections of poetry, O Body Swayed (Cherry Grove Collections, 2009) and Dissolution of Ghosts (Cherry Grove Collections, 2005), which was runner-up for the Lyre Prize in Poetry. She is the editor of the anthology Dwelling in Possibility: Voices of Erie County (Gannon University Press, 2010). She served as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Erie County, Pennsylvania, from 2009 to 2010.

She is a professor English at Gannon University where she teaches courses in creative writing and literature and advises the award-winning literary-art magazine, Totem. In 2012, she received the 2012 Distinguished Faculty award.

Her poems have appeared widely in national journals, including The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Poetry Northwest, Nimrod, Journal of the American Medical Association, Kansas Quarterly, Runes, Alehouse Review, Cimarron Review and others and in the anthologies, Common Wealth: Poets on Pennsylvania, Only Morning in Her Shoes, and Life on the Line. She has poems posted on The Best American Poetry and An American Life in Poetry web sites. Her articles have been published in Public Health Reports, The World and I, and the Foreign Service Journal.
Her poetry has won awards from the Bellevue Literary Review, The Pinch Literary Journal, Margie: The American Journal of Poetry, Negative Capability Press, the Tom Howard Poetry Contest, and the Chester H. Jones Foundation. She has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

She is married ro Robert F. Brooker, PhD, professor of economics at Gannon University, and has two children, Aaron and Emma.

Publications

Dwelling in Possibility: Voices of Erie County, Ed. Gannon University Press, 2010.

Poetry in Journals and Anthologies:

Verse Daily, The Pinch, The Best American Poetry, An American Life in Poetry. Poetry Foundation, Margie: The American Journal of Poetry, Alehouse, Bellevue Literary Review, Nimrod International Journal: The Healing Arts, Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania, .Along the Lake, Timber Creek Review, River Walk Journal: A Journal of Arts and Letters, New Zoo Poetry Review, Wild Violet, .Runes: A Review of Poetry, Phoebe: Journal of Gender and Cultural Critiques, Poetry Northwest ,REAL: The Journal of Liberal Arts, Pudding: The International Journal of Applied Poetry, The Southern Review, Iris, Midwest Poetry Review, Mediphors: A Literary Journal of the Heath Professions, The Comstock Review, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Wisconsin Review, The Hiram Poetry Review, Voices International, Cimarron Review, Negative Capability, Life on the Line: Selections on Words and Healing, and others.

Articles:

“Silver Bird: How the DC-3 Contributed to Public Health in 1950’s Nepal.” Public Health
Reports. 124.5 (September/October 2009): 751-757. Print. (Co-authored with George Moore, M.D.)